On April 25 UTC I got the most pecular flash timings yet in 2.5-plus years of using my 100-lap stopwatch. The object was Intelsat 4-F3 Rk (71-116B, 06779). The last ten or so of these times were easily observed one-power: 02 2:13:21.50 UTC 03 7.43 2:13:28.93 04 11.00 05 7.41 06 11.00 07 7.09 08 11.31 09 6.69 10 11.96 11 6.34 12 12.01 13 6.04 14 13.05 15 4.98 16 14.14 17 3.79 18 15.03 19 3.01 20 16.66 21 18.90 22 14.16 2:16:43.50 I don't know what happened on the last click (beginning of phase shift or something?) and did not include it in the PPAS report: 71-116 B 01-04-25 02:16:29.1 EC 188.55 0.7 10 18.8 mag +3.0->inv, asymmetry Intelsat 4-4 Rk (05816) is a very nice, fast flasher: 72- 3 B 01-05-02 02:27:19.3 EC 88.4 0.4 57 1.55 mag +2.5->inv Location BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 285m. Here's the introduction to a nice set of Web pages by the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society related to the Astronomical League's Earth Orbiting Satellites Observing Club: http://www.rmss.org/eosoc/EOSOC_Intro.htm Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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